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IN DIALOGUE WITH BELGIUM, HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE EXPERTS ASK ABOUT THE PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN THE CONTEXT OF COUNTER-TERRORISM AND MIGRATION

5 years 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home IN DIALOGUE WITH BELGIUM, HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE EXPERTS ASK ABOUT THE PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN THE CONTEXT OF COUNTER-TERRORISM AND MIGRATION 16 October 2019 Meeting Summaries Experts also Discuss Hate-driven Speech and the Rise of Extreme Right-wing Parties; Detention of Migrants, including Children; Police Violence against Refugees and Migrants; and the Repatriation of Spouses and Children of Foreign Fighters The Human Rights Committee today concluded its…

Transcript of Press Stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen following meeting with Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Muallem

5 years 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home Transcript of Press Stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen following meeting with Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Muallem 16 October 2019 Press Conferences Good morning, as you know I have had discussions in Riyadh with the Opposition SNC, and today I continue those discussions here in Damascus with Foreign Minister Muallem. We obviously concentrated on the situation in the northeast, and I repeated the Secretary-General’s…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE

5 years 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE 15 October 2019 UN Geneva Press Briefing Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by spokespersons for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, the United Nations…

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE REVIEWS THE REPORT OF SENEGAL, RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT LIMITS ON PRESS FREEDOMS AND ON CIVIC SPACE

5 years 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE REVIEWS THE REPORT OF SENEGAL, RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT LIMITS ON PRESS FREEDOMS AND ON CIVIC SPACE 15 October 2019 Meeting Summaries The Human Rights Committee today concluded its consideration of the fifth periodic report of Senegal on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Committee Experts discussed, among others, restrictions affecting civic space and the suspension of civil and political rights,…

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE OPENS ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVENTH SESSION

5 years 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE OPENS ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVENTH SESSION 14 October 2019 Meeting Summaries Committee to Review the Reports of Senegal, Belgium, Mexico, Czech Republic, Central African Republic and Cabo Verde The Human Rights Committee this morning opened its one hundred and twenty-seventh session at the Palais Wilson in Geneva, hearing a statement from Simon Walker, Chief of the Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section at the Office of…

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS STARTS DAY OF GENERAL DISCUSSION ON GOVERNANCE OF LAND TENURE

5 years 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS STARTS DAY OF GENERAL DISCUSSION ON GOVERNANCE OF LAND TENURE 14 October 2019 Meeting Summaries Holds Two Panels on Pressures on Land and Speculation, and on Protection of Security of Land Tenure, including Gender Dimensions The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this morning started its day of general discussion on obligations of States under the…

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONCLUDES DAY OF GENERAL DISCUSSION ON GOVERNANCE OF LAND TENURE

5 years 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONCLUDES DAY OF GENERAL DISCUSSION ON GOVERNANCE OF LAND TENURE 14 October 2019 Meeting Summaries Holds Panel Discussions on Concerns Related to Land by Indigenous Peoples and other Vulnerable Groups, Land Rights and Conflicts, and Land under Changing Environmental Conditions and Climate Change The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon…

COMMITTEE ON ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES CLOSES SEVENTEENTH SESSION

5 years 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home COMMITTEE ON ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES CLOSES SEVENTEENTH SESSION 11 October 2019 Press Release Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the Reports of Bolivia and Slovakia The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this afternoon closed its seventeenth session after adopting concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Bolivia and Slovakia on the implementation of the International Convention…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE

5 years 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE 11 October 2019 UN Geneva Press Briefing Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was a attended by the spokespersons for the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food…

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS DISCUSSES SITUATION OF VULNERABLE GROUPS, INCLUDING ROMA, IN DIALOGUE WITH SLOVAKIA

5 years 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS DISCUSSES SITUATION OF VULNERABLE GROUPS, INCLUDING ROMA, IN DIALOGUE WITH SLOVAKIA 10 October 2019 Meeting Summaries The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concluded today the review of the third periodic report of Slovakia on measures taken to implement the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Committee Experts…